Inara (goddess)

Inara is the Hittite tutelary goddess of all wild animals except dragons. She is the daughter of the Hittite weather god Tarhunna.

Myth

She tends to fight all the dragons and eliminate. She takes the dragon Illuyanka who cares with his children for resentment in the area, caught by a trick.

Initially, loses her father in the fight against Kiskilussa Illuyanka. Later Inara organized at the request of her father and with the help of her lover Hupasiya from Zigaratta a feast for the dragon. The dragon Illuyanka and his family, which is known for its binge drinking, feasting and drinking at the feast, for what they can find.

Consequently, they are very tired after the heavy food and can not return to their camp. Hupasiya takes the opportunity and ties the kite together and taking them captive. Then dive Inaras father, the weather god, and proposes the bound dragon Illuyanka and defeated him for good.

With the bounty, which is fixed for the dragon, Inara can build on a cliff for her boyfriend a heavenly palace. But she warns him not to look out the window to look for his family out. Hupasiya, as expected not resist and watched longingly his lonely wife and children. He asks Inara, to grant him the permission to return to his family. Inara, which is very hard-hearted, kill him, because he has ignored her warning, and sold the castle.

After a meeting with the Mother Goddess Hannah Anna finds a new lover and buys some land to enjoy life with him.

Inara disappears without a trace at the end, and not even the magical bees Hannah Anna can track ever.